Black People : African American Massacres, Race Riots, Revolts and Lynchings in America

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HENRY SMITH (?-1893)​

Henry Smith (?-1893) •

On Friday, February 3, 1893, Henry Smith was lynched in Paris, Texas, in front of an estimated 15,000 spectators. His death was one of the earliest spectacle lynchings on record. The heinousness of Smith’s death captured the attention of journalist and anti-lynching advocate Ida B. Wells. She...

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LYNCHING OF JULIA AND FRAZIER BAKER (1898)​

Lynching of Julia and Frazier Baker (1898) •

Frazier Baker, a schoolteacher and married father of six, was appointed the first African American postmaster of Lake City, South Carolina, in July 1897 by President William McKinley. Baker and his wife Lavinia were born in Effingham, South Carolina, a mostly black area, where he had previously...

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JOSEPH (JOE) MARTIN (?-1904)​

Joseph (Joe) Martin (?-1904) •

Joseph (Joe) Martin, an African American man, was lynched by a mob of three hundred white men in Laramie, Wyoming on August 29, 1904. The Cheyenne Daily Leader headline read, “Joe Martin Taken from Jail After Desperate Battle and Hanged to Telegraph Pole.” Martin was … Read MoreJoseph (Joe)...

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ALLEN BROOKS (CA. 1853-1910)​

Allen Brooks (ca. 1853-1910) •

On Thursday, March 3, 1910, a Dallas, Texas mob lynched Allen Brooks, a fifty-seven-year-old African American man. His murder was one of a number of lynchings in major Texas cities. Little is known about Brooks’s early life. He was born in either Maryland or Texas around 1853. By the … Read...

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JESSE WASHINGTON (1897-1916)​

Jesse Washington (1897-1916) •

On the morning of May 15, 1916, approximately 15,000 people gathered near Waco, Texas to witness the trial and lynching of Jesse Washington, an eighteen-year-old black man charged with the bludgeoning death of Lucy Fryer. The brutal murder of Washington provided the newly formed National...

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